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The practice of patching, configuring and monitoring laptops, desktops and servers from a central console, often via installed agents.
According to CRN, Microsoft's Execution Containers for securing AI agents on Windows 11 are now generally available, and Intune policies manage them. Windows teams now have a supported place to govern agents, though the report says little about what a container actually isolates.
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Microsoft made WSL Containers generally available with a wslc.exe CLI, an app-facing API, and Intune settings to disable it or allow-list registries. Through that API any native Windows app can start a Linux container, so policy has to cover software launches as well as developers at a prompt.
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Microsoft has switched Windows settings backup on by default for Entra-joined and hybrid-joined PCs upgraded to Windows 11 26H2, released September 29. Tenants that never set the policy now copy users' settings and Store app lists until an admin turns it off.
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Omnissa launched Elara for AI governance, citing its own report that AI-assistant use on work devices grew nearly 1,000% in 2025, mostly via unapproved tools. For endpoint teams it is a new category to assess, and the controls Omnissa described attach most clearly to agents IT has already granted access.
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Only 36% of IT staff in an Automox survey feel highly confident in their endpoint compliance visibility, as AI agents start acting on managed devices. Agents inherit their launcher's rights, so teams now need a record of what each may do and what it did.
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Luke Heath's written answers to Lets Data Science put eight named controls around the model, among them scoped credentials, engineer approval and hand reproduction of every candidate finding. Heath has not disclosed results yet.
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Vista's more than 400 staff in the UK and Ireland give TRG the engineers who turn up when a terminal or kiosk dies, filling the part of the device lifecycle that remote tools and depot repair leave open.
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A device preparation policy in automatic mode holds provisioning open until the named apps and scripts install, with one provisioning-policy checkbox deciding whether a Cloud PC that fails preparation still reaches its user.
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The launch rests on a count of 973 CVEs in one Patch Tuesday, published with no vendor breakdown and no exploitation data, and on a pipeline that has AI write the configuration change a human then tests.
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